Martha Agnes Elezina PURVES

Martha Agnes Elezina PURVES

Female 1828 - 1917  (88 years)


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  • Name Martha Agnes Elezina PURVES 
    Birth 8 Nov 1828  Rome, Italy Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Italy, Select Births and Baptisms, 1806-1900
      Name: Martha Agnes Eliza Purves Gender: Female Baptism Date: 30 dic 1828 (30 Dec 1828) Baptism Place: British Chaplaincy, Roma, Roma, Italy
      Father: James Purves Mother: Sarah
      FHL Film Number: 574492
      NOTE: Baptism also recorded in Scotland.

    Gender Female 
    Census 1851  26 Pitt St, St Stephen, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • 1851 Scotland census for 26 Pitt St, St Stephen, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland, UK:
      Source Citation: Parish: Edinburgh St Stephen; ED: 2; Page: 10; Line: 4; Roll: 760; Year: 1851.
      In house headed by Mary Brown 52
      Martha A E Purves 22, aged 22, single, visitor, British subject, born Rome

      Source Information: Ancestry.com. 1851 Scotland Census [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
      Original data: Scotland. 1851 Scotland Census. Reels 1-217. General Register Office for Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland.

    Census 1891  Kensington Court Gardens, Kensington, London, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Death 3 Jun 1917  Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/176668237/martha-agnes_elizina-silver
      Name: Martha Agnes Elizina Silver
      Birth Date: 8 Nov 1828
      Birth Place: Rome, Citt?a Metropolitana di Roma Capitale, Lazio, Italy
      Death Date: 3 Jun 1917
      Death Place: Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland
      Cemetery: Dean Cemetery
      Burial or Cremation Place: Edinburgh, City of Edinburgh, Scotland


      British India Office Pension registers - Military Funds Transcription. List of Wives, and widows, and children of the members of the Madras Military Fund.

    _FNRL 5 Jun 1917  Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • The Scotsman - Tuesday 05 June 1917, p8:
      SILVER - At 32 Melville Street, Edinburgh, June 3rd, Mrs Martha Agnes Elizina Purves or Silver (Zina Silver), aged 88, widow of General Alexander Crombie Silver, late of the Indian Army, and Military Secretary, Madras. Funeral to the Dean Cemetery, today (Tuesday), at 2 o'clock. Friends please accept this (the only) intimation and invitation. (No flowers). RIP.
    Probate 20 Aug 1917  Edinburgh, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Scotland, National Probate Index (Calendar of Confirmations and Inventories), 1876-1936
      Name: Martha Agnes Elizina Purvis Silver Death Date: 3 Jun 1917 Death Place: Edinburgh, Scotland
      Confirmation Date: 20 Aug 1917 Confirmation Place: Edinburgh, Scotland

    _FGRAVE 176668237 
    Notes 
    • Appears to have been known as Zina (short for Elezina). According to British Indian Army records, Zina received his pension and they did not have children.

    Person ID I1732  Warren Nunn's family tree
    Last Modified 19 Jan 2021 

    Family Alexander Crombie SILVER,   b. 5 Nov 1821, Netherley, Fetteresso, Kincardineshire, Scotland, UK Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 5 Oct 1891, 7 Kensington Court Gardens, Kensington, London, England, UK Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 69 years) 
    Marriage 21 Sep 1852  British Consulate, Frankfurt, Germany Find all individuals with events at this location 
    • Marriage record Overseas BMD: SILVER, Alexander Crombie. Consulate: Frankfurt. Country: Germany. Year: 1849-1954. Vol: 1 Page: 368.
      PURVES, Martha Agnes Elezina.

    Family ID F2286  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 28 Feb 2025